Programming Languages Timeline

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  • Fortran

    Fortran
    It used to be FORTRAN, which stands for Formula Translating System. It is used for numeric computation or science computing. It was developed by IBM in the 50's for engineering pupose and science.

  • MATH-MATIC

    MATH-MATIC
    MATH-MATIC was intended as an improvement over FORTRAN. It was developed by Charles Katz. It is an English-language business data processing compiler.

  • Lisp

    Lisp
    Lisp is the second oldest programming language used today, followed by Fortran. Originally it was used for practical mathematical notation. The name LISP derives from LISt Processing. It was designed by John McCarthy.

  • COBOL

    COBOL
    COBOL was designed by numerous people, including Howard Bromberg and Howard Discount. COBOL is an acronym for COmmon Business-Oriented Language. It is used on mainframe computers, and was originally designed for business use.

  • BASIC

    BASIC
    John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz designed the first BASIC at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. It stands for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. It is known for ease of use.

  • LOGO

    LOGO
    Logo is primarily an educational language. It was designed by Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert. It is used for making line graphics.The name comes from the Greek.

  • B

    It was developed at Bell Labs in1969. Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie worked on it. B was designed for machine independent applications

  • C

    C
    Created by Dennis Ritchie between 1969 and 1973 at AT&T Bell Labs. Many other language borrow from it.

  • ML

    ML
    ML was developed by Robin Milner. ML stands for metalanguage. It was conceived to develop proof tactics in the LCF theorem prover.

  • Ada

    Ada
    Developed byJean Ichbiah of CII Honeywell Bull under contract by the United States Department of Defense (DoD). It was designed for development of large software systems

  • C++

    C++
    Designed by Bjarne Stroustrup in 1983. It is designed for system programming. The name comes from the language C, and it has two plusses next to is

  • Delphi

    Delphi
    Delphi is based on Pascal, and that is primarily a teaching language. Delphi itself is used for efficiency and support access for low level programming. It was developed by a company called Borland.

  • Java

    Java
    Java is class based and object oriented. The language was designed by James Gosling and Sun Microsystems in 1995. It is used for client server applications.

  • JavaScript

    JavaScript
    JavaScript was designed by Brendan Eich. It is essential in the World Wide Web, as the majority of websites use it.